Back to School in Liberated Libya

'I still remember the day they burned the English books at my school.'

By

Ann Marlowe

August 16, 2011

Benghazi

While foreign observers focus on the internecine struggles of Free Libya's Transitional National Council, much more profound developments are under way here. The crippled Libyan educational system molded by Gadhafi's 42-year rule is being retooled to "build the principles of democracy," says the council's education minister, Suliman el Sahli. On Sept. 5, he and his colleagues in the Education Working Group plan...